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Quotes November 16, 2021

The month is a time to cherish and celebrate our rich and diverse cultures, traditions, languages and legacies.
Jonathan Nez,
ninth president of the Navajo Nation
November is Native American Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
George Eliot
 
 
 
 
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
 
 
 
 
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.
Hannah Arendt
 
 
 
 
Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.
Norman Doidge
 
 
 
 
The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body — to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
 
 
 
 
Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.
Rebecca Solnit
 
 
 
 
If you hear the language of the stars
Overnight you’ll hear the secrets of the world.
Silence of the night will sing [a] hundred songs
In your ears, the stories of the skies.
Khalilullah Khalili
 
 
 
 
I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow.
Louise Hay
 
 
 
 
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
C.S. Lewis,
writer
 
 
 
 
Belonging shouldn’t mean you are like everyone else.
Misty Copeland – Ballet Dancer
 
 
 
 
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.”
Alvin Toffler
 
 
 
 
“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
 
 
 
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
Walt Disney – 1901-1966, Entrepreneur, Animator and Film Producer

Quotes November 14, 2021

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.
Misty Copeland – Ballet Dancer
 
 
 
 
There are notes between notes, you know.
Sarah Vaughan,
jazz singer
 
 
 
 
I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities.
Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.
Reese Witherspoon,
actor, producer, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle,
Suquamish and Duwamish chief
November is Native American Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
We all share the same Earth Mother, regardless of race or country of origin, so let us learn the ways of love, peace and harmony, and seek the good paths in life.
I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are, but rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man.
Sun Bear,
Chippewa medicine chief, writer
November is Native American Heritage Month

Quotes November 08, 2021

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
All that you could ever desire is already present and only waits to be matched by your beliefs.
Neville Goddard – 1905-1972 – Author-Influential Teacher
 
 
 
 
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
Yo-Yo Ma,
cellist
 
 
 
 
Creativity is just one of those strange, elusive things. It’s like trying to grab a cloud.
Danny Elfman,
musician, composer
 
 
 
 
When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.
Chief White Eagle,
politician, civil rights activist, hereditary chief of the Ponca
November is Native American Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Look forward. Turn what has been done into a better path.
Wilma Mankiller,
activist, social worker, community developer, first woman elected to serve as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
November is Native American Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Ships don’t sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what’s happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.
Unknown

Quotes November 02, 2021

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
Louis Pasteur
 
 
 
 
In biology, every ‘I’ has been enabled by a ‘we.’
Andreas Weber
 
 
 
 
And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye
clear. What we need is here.
Wendell Berry
 
 
 
 
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
Power is within us all. Anything can be overcome by going within.
Wim Hof
 
 
 
 
Today, try not to rush a single thing.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
Irwin Shaw,
playwright, screenwriter, writer
 
 
 
 
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. …so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
Leo Tolstoy – 1828-1910 – Author-Novelist
 
 
 
 
Representation truly does matter. In the end, that’s what it’s really about, for people to bring their perspectives to the table.
Everything depends on our ability to sustainably inhabit this earth, and true sustainability will require us all to change our way of thinking on how we take from the earth and how we give back.
Deb Haaland,
54th US secretary of the interior, first Native American to serve as Cabinet secretary
November is Native American Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan to do.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Don’t always scrape & search for compliments. Criticism is what builds character & strength!
Unknown

Quotes October 30, 2021

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Warren Bennis
 
 
 
 
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden – 1910-2010 – American Basketball Coach
 
 
 
 
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley,
writer
 
 
 
 
Creating authentic power means aligning your personality with your soul.
Gary Zukav
 
 
 
 
A refugee is someone who survived and who can create the future.
Amela Koluder
 
 
 
 
Our need will be the real creator
Plato
 
 
 
 
I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
Martha Graham
 
 
 
 
The human condition is one about belonging. We simply cannot thrive unless we are in relationship.
john a. powell
 
 
 
 
Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.
Joyce Meyer
 
 
 
 
Even if it’s not audible, you should sing inside.
Unknown Tuvan woman
 
 
 
 
Stars can’t shine without darkness.
Unknown

Quotes October 19, 2021

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee – 1926-2016 – Novelist
 
 
 
 
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Arianna Huffington – Author-Columnist-Businesswoman
 
 
 
 
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
Billy Graham
 
 
 
 
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Plato
 
 
 
 
Tolstoy wrote with the precision of the artist and the passion of the scientist.
Vladamir Nabokov
 
 
 
 
It’s paradoxical and it’s fantastically benevolent that we can feel deeply in contact with the world around us as, and really only as, we cultivate that deep contact within ourselves.
Judith Blackstone
 
 
 
 
Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.
Anne Lamott
 
 
 
 
When you change the way you see people, your experience of people changes.
Nic Askew
 
 
 
 
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
 
 
 
 
Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.
David Bohm
 
 
 
 
Grief and joy and love — it’s all part of the same spectrum. I’m grieving because I loved someone so much.
Maryanne O’Hara
 
 
 
 
Every day I make a choice to transcend the negative and use every moment that there is breath in this body to positively impact the world around me.
Preethi Srinivasan

Quotes October 18, 2021

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”
Merce Cunningham
 
 
 
 
Of all the species that need rewilding, I think human beings come at the top of the list. I would love to see a more intense and emotional engagement of human beings with the living world.
George Monbiot
 
 
 
 
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Herman Melville
 
 
 
 
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
John O’Donohue
 
 
 
 
One foggy morning 30 years ago Bob Sadler was out looking for the perfect photo along a riverbank. A rowing competition was on. A homeless man happened by, looked at him and said, “I suppose the question for you is–are you an artist or are you just an observer with a camera?”
 
 
 
 
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
Wendell Berry
 
 
 
 
The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study…I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.
Ross Gay
Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings: The Book of Delights: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness
 
 
 
 
If you brew your own cauldron, magic will surely happen.
Dara McAnulty
 
 
 
 
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Brene Brown – Professor-Lecturer-Author
 
 
 
 
A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Angela Merkel – Chancellor of Germany
 
 
 
 
That’s all it took to solve problems — just sense.
A book is a friend. You can never have too many.
Gary Paulsen,
writer
1939-2021

Quotes October 16, 2021

You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.
Leymah Gbowee – Peace Activist
 
 
 
 
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall – Primatologist-Anthropologist
 
 
 
 
“Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.”
Walter Savage Landor
 
 
 
 
Don’t be told something is impossible. There’s always a way.
Robert Rodriguez,
filmmaker
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
There isn’t time — so brief is life — for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving — and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
Carson McCullers
 
 
 
 
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Dorothy Thompson
 
 
 
 
The more any of us writes, the more our words will “come to us.” If we trust in the words and their own mysterious relationship with one another, they will help us find things out.
Naomi Shihab Nye

Quotes October 12, 2021

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.”
Ferdinand Marcos
 
 
 
 
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Helen Keller – 1880-1968 – Educator-Author-Political Activist
 
 
 
 
I want to raise questions because I don’t think I have the answers.
Hung Liu
 
 
 
 
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – 1756-1791 – Prolific, Influential Compost of the Classical Period
 
 
 
 
Enlightenment to me is a movement in the here and now, not a goal to be reached.
Gert van Leeuwen
 
 
 
 
Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives–we are each of us unique.
Oliver Sacks
 
 
 
 
If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.
Deepak Chopra
 
 
 
 
Welcome a deep breath and a sense of feeling safe, strong, and spiritually connected.
Warmly,
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love
E.A. Bucchianeri
 
 
 
 
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don’t move; today is today, always is today.
Octavio Paz,
poet, writer, diplomat, Nobel Prize winner
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart – 1897-1939 – Aviation Pioneer-Author

Quotes October 09, 2021

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I’m going to learn from that process.
You can’t control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.
Lin-Manuel Miranda,
composer, lyricist, singer, actor, playwright, producer
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
Thomas Paine
 
 
 
 
I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
Joan Rivers – 1933-2014 – Comedian-Actress-Writer-Producer
 
 
 
 
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage – 1912-1992 – Composer-Music Theorist-Artist-Philosopher
 
 
 
 
Simply walking into a forest is a holiday for your mind and soul, allowing your imagination and creativity to bloom
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
 
 
 
 
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive.
Francis Weller
 
 
 
 
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin